Chapter BASILISK to BEAUTY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

A beard like an artichoke, with dry shrivelled jaws.

Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act III. Scene 7.

And there he lies with a great beard, like a Russian bear upon a drift of snow.

Congreve.—The Double Dealer, Act III. Scene 5.

Sir, you have the most insinuating manner, but indeed you should get rid of that odious beard—one might as well kiss a hedgehog.

Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act II. Scene 2.

BEASTS.—Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act V. Scene 4. (Jaques to Orlando.)

BEAUTY.—Ay, my continent of beauty.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV. Scene 1. (Boyet to Rosaline.)

Beauty in distress shone like the sun
Piercing a summer’s cloud.

Colman, Jun.—Battle of Hexham, Act I. Scene 3.

BEAUTY.—When beauty in distress appears,
An irresistless charm it bears:
In every breast does pity move,
Pity, the tenderest part of love.

Yalden.—To Captain Chamberlain, Verse 3.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto V. Line 33.

Nature in various moulds has beauty cast,
And form’d the feature for each different taste:
This sighs for golden locks and azure eyes;
That, for the gloss of sable tresses dies.

Gay.—Dione, Act III. Scene 1.

Were you with these, my prince, you’d soon forget
The pale, unripen’d beauties of the north.

Addison.—Cato, Act I.

’Tis not a set of features, nor complexion,
The tincture of a skin that I admire;
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.

Addison.—Cato, Act I. Scene 1.

’Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.

Pope.—On Criticism, Line 245.

Where none admire, ’tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, ’tis vain to be a belle;
Beauty like wit, to judges should be shewn;
Both most are valued, where they best are known.

Lyttleton.—Soliloquy of a Beauty, Line 11.

Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.